Example sentences of "it know [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I read it to know the enemy .
2 The public would have been less impressed had it known the facts .
3 But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction .
4 Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset !
5 In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already .
6 Dr Ronnie Hamdy of St John 's Hospital , London , told New Scientist that , because the firm did the drug assays in its own laboratories , it knew the results before he did .
7 It knew the bank 's position ; it knew how much liquidity to inject to relieve the pressure .
8 It knew the nights when I was more drunk than others and the first time that I turned my back . ’
9 It is one of the 20 largest software companies in the US , its MS-DOS Fastback package is the industry standard and it knows a thing or two about distribution and support .
10 A horse should be able to feel safe and secure in its own stable : it needs a ‘ safe-house ’ where it knows no harm will come to it .
11 When the trumpet brays , it knows the attack will pass it by .
12 It may be that the IRA hopes that it will flush out current informants by publicising the fact that it knows the identities of some agents .
13 It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation .
14 More common , of course , is the situation where the media is in possession of material which it knows the Attorney-General would be able to injunct ( normally on grounds of breach of confidence ) but would be unlikely to pursue once it had been published .
15 He said that the government would consider developing community radio only when it knows the outcome of the 1984 conference .
16 In effect , where a firm 's customer is an intermediary dealing on behalf of his own clients , the firm must in principle treat the intermediary 's client as its own customer if it knows the client 's identity ( except where the firm is dealing with a market counterparty , see page 29 below ) ; in certain circumstances , however , the intermediary can be treated as the customer ( see below ) .
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